Each issue of the journal contains an open section to provide a platform for general contributions on conflict and violence. Single contributions may be submitted at any point in time.

In addition each issue of IJCV also contains a so-called focus section. Contributions for a focus section are usually submitted in response to a Call for Papers (see below). Selected authors may be invited directly to participate in a focus section. If you are interested in guest editing an IJCV focus section, or if you have any suggestions for possible topics, please feel free to contact us.

 

Call for Papers: Evidence-Based Developmental Prevention of Youth Violence and Bullying

The International Journal of Conflict and Violence invites submissions to a focus section devoted to the topic: evidence-based developmental prevention of youth violence and bullying. Research has documented broad detrimental effects of violence and bullying on children’s and adolescents’ mental health and educational achievement. However, there is a lack of systematic integration of research-based developmental knowledge into youth violence and bullying prevention, and there have been few controlled trials of effectiveness. In addition, the few existing evidence appears afflicted by systematic bias associated with conflict of interest, which has been considered threatening experimental research. Research also indicates that large independent field trials tend to come to less positive conclusions than developer-led studies with tight control over the all aspects of the study.

We invite contributions to this issue that address systematic translation of developmental knowledge into bullying and violence prevention practice, developmental factors contributing to the prevention of youth violence and bullying, as well as methodologically rigorous research designs that will help move the field forward to produce the evidence that is needed.

We are especially interested in empirical papers that contribute to a better understanding of evidence-based intervention practices in the context of bullying and violence.  We encourage empirical analyses that use (quasi-) experimental research designs (i.e., randomized controlled trials) to evaluate the impact of school-based, family-based, or multisystemic bullying and violence prevention programs in adolescence. We are also interested in moderation and mediation analysis of the relationship between intervention strategies and outcomes.

We welcome contributions from a range of scientific disciplines, including criminology, developmental and clinical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and educational sciences. 

The focus section is scheduled to appear in autumn 2012 and will be guest-edited by Professor Tina Malti (University of Toronto/tina.malti@utoronto.ca) and Professor Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge/ mpe23@cam.ac.uk).

Deadline for manuscript submission is March 20, 2012.

We are asking all contributors to stay within a word limit of 4000 words, which includes all references. For additional submission/manuscript guidelines please visit http://www.ijcv.org.

 

Call for Papers: Qualitative Research on Prejudice

The discrimination and persecution of minority groups on the basis of stereotyped patterns of perception and cognition are still highly relevant and prevalent problems in modern societies. Recent incidents like the mass murder committed by Anders Breivik in Norway and violent attacks against Sinti and Roma in the Czech Republic, as well as developments like antisemitic hate speech against intellectuals in Hungary, anti-immigrant attitudes in the USA, the rising number of violent attacks on lesbians and gays in many African countries or the rise of right wing populist movements all over Europe point to the urgent necessity for interdisciplinary research on prejudice and stereotyping. Such research must meet the challenge of coping with ever-changing and often elusive or latent forms of prejudice in increasingly complex sociopolitical circumstances. 

In this, qualitative methods of empirical research on prejudice play an outstanding role. After linguistic, cultural and practice turns in the social sciences, qualitative research methods form a well-established and integral part of prejudice research and spurred considerable progress in our understanding of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Predominant among the advances is the idea that these phenomena are not based on a fixed and unchangeable “nature of prejudice” (Allport) understood as an unambiguous and stable meaning structure which can be detected and adequately described by standardized measurement techniques. Instead, qualitative research has directed its attention towards prejudice as a variety of often ambivalent, fragmented, and particularly context-related phenomena. This is associated with the awareness that the subject area cannot be adequately addressed solely by a fixed set of standardized methods. Thus the comparatively lesser degree of homogeneity and standardization generally found in qualitative research methodology provides a special opportunity for doing justice to an ever-changing object of research, taking into account the variability and context-relatedness of the investigated phenomena.

This focus section aims to fill a specific gap in the research literature on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination: While the methodological chapters in recent handbooks on prejudice almost exclusively deal with quantitative methods, handbooks and monographs on qualitative methods show little interest at all in the topic of prejudice. The focus section seeks  illustrate and highlight the contributions of qualitative and mixed method studies to prejudice research. However, the benefit of these approaches for our understanding of prejudice cannot be determined in abstract methodological or theoretical discussions alone; rather, we want to advance debates on theoretical, methodological, and methodical questions and their necessary interconnection in the light of concrete, in-practice empirical research projects that deal with prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. Papers should highlight the unique contribution of qualitative and mixed method approaches to our empirical and theoretical understanding of those phenomena using examples from actual research practice. Finally, the aim of the issue is not to deal with qualitative approaches in an exclusive manner, but also to highlight the potential of mixed method designs and method integration.

Contributions should focus on the following set of problems that are decisive for the field of research:

  • the situational adaption and flexible realisation of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination in varying social contexts 
  • the specific interconnectedness of theoretical and empirical aspects within the research project
  • the specific methodological and empirical approach of the project in relation to the phenomenon under study and the research question, and the specific experiences in the respective field of research
  • finally, on the basis of the first three points: what is the specific value that qualitative and mixed methods can add to our understanding of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination?

The focus section is scheduled to appear in spring 2013. It will be guest-edited by Udo Kelle (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg/ kelle@hsu-hh.de), Felix Knappertsbusch (Philipps-University Marburg/ felix.knappertsbusch@staff.uni-marburg.de), and Björn Milbradt (University of Kassel/ bjoernmilbradt@uni-kassel.de).

Deadline for manuscript submission is April 15, 2012.

For submission/manuscript guidelines please visit http://www.ijcv.org

 

 



 

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